Arabic

Verb

لَفَظَ • ‎(lafaẓa) I, non-past يَلْفِظُ‎ (yalfiẓu)

1. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ ‎(bi-)) to emit
2. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ ‎(bi-)) to spit out
3. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ ‎(bi-)) to eject
4. (transitive, with accusative and مِنْ ‎(min)) to throw out
5. to speak, enunciate, articulate
6. (transitive, with accusative or بِـ ‎(bi-)) to pronounce, utter, express, say

Conjugation

Derived terms

• لَفَظَ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلْأَخِيرَ ‎(lafaẓa n-nafsa l-ʾaḵīra, “to breathe one's last breath, die”)
• لَفَظَ أَنْفَاسَهُ ‎(lafaẓa ʾanfāsahu, “to be in the throes of death”, literally “to release one's breaths”)
• لَفَظَ رُوحَهُ ‎(lafaẓa rūḥahu, “to give up the ghost”, literally “to release one's spirit”)
• لَفَظَ لَفْظَ ٱلنَّوَاةِ ‎(lafaẓa lafẓa n-nawāti, “to brush aside, reject”, literally “to spit the spitting of a date pit”)

Etymology 2

Verbal noun from لَفَظّ ‎(lafaẓẓ), from the root ل ف ظ ‎(l-f-ẓ).

Noun

لَفْظ • ‎(lafẓ) m ‎(plural أَلْفَاظ ‎(ʾalfāẓ))

1. expression, term, word
2. wording, formulation
3. articulation, enunciation, pronunciation

Declension

Derived terms

• لَفْظًا ‎(lafẓan, “verbatim, literally”)
• لَفْظًا وَمَعْنًى ‎(lafẓan wa-maʿnan, “in letter and spirit”)
• أَخْطَأَ ٱللَّفْظَ ‎(ʾaḵṭaʾa l-lafẓa, “to mispronounce”)
• لَفْظِيّ ‎(lafẓiyy, “verbal, literal, pronounced, oral”)
• لَفْظَة ‎(lafẓa, “a word, saying”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “لفظ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4